Canada: Kamloops atheist group takes issue with creationism teaching
Jason Spaceman
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The theory of evolution versus that of creationism is an argument as old as time
— literally.
According to a local atheist group, however, evolution is the way of the world
and all publicly funded schools should teach as such.
This, said Bill Ligertwood, director of the Kamloops Centre for Rational
Thought, includes independent schools like Kamloops Christian School, which is a
religion-based institution that receives government funding.
Ligertwood said the problem is not that the school is teaching religious
theology, but that creationism is being taught as equal to evolution in science
class.
“There’s no way they should be teaching basically science fiction in science
classes,” Ligertwood said, arguing creationism has been debunked as actual
science time and again.
“As far as we’re concerned, it’s no different then teaching the Easter Bunny is
true in a science class.
“They can teach all the religion they want to teach, and that’s what they’ll do
because it’s a Christian school, but it shouldn’t be in science class. It’s not
science,” he said.
“This is an institution that is receiving public money and it’s teaching
children lies.
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Read it at
http://www.bclocalnews.com/bc_thompson_nicola/kamloopsthisweek/news/86407677.html
or http://tinyurl.com/y9f3vdl
J. Spaceman
bpuharic
<notr...@jspaceman.homelinux.org> wrote:
>From the article:
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>The theory of evolution versus that of creationism is an argument as old as time
>� literally.
>
>According to a local atheist group, however, evolution is the way of the world
>and all publicly funded schools should teach as such.
>
>This, said Bill Ligertwood, director of the Kamloops Centre for Rational
>Thought, includes independent schools like Kamloops Christian School, which is a
>religion-based institution that receives government funding.
i always wanted to visit kamloops when i traveled to canada....just
like those places named nummaaaqqqllyyppsqqqsits. never made it
though....
Gary Bohn
Canada is a nice place to visit, but living there tends to freeze your
left nut.
We have special thermal pants.
Gary Bohn
We have the same problems as the Americans, its about time we started
dealing with them.